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Authors Interviewing Characters: Angela Petch
Italy, 1945. ‘Where am I?’ The young man wakes, bewildered. He sees olive trees against a bright blue sky. A soft voice soothes him. ‘We saw you fall from your plane. The parachute saved you.’ He remembers nothing of his life, or the war that has torn the world apart… but where does he belong? […]
Where the Heart is
In 2003 we uprooted our children and left England. Just for a year, four at the most, we said, as we packed our life into boxes, our children and cat into the car, and raced the setting sun as we drove west across the breadth of England, Wales, and onto the Ireland-bound ferry. We arrived […]
Making Connections in Writing
Making Connections in Writing ‘No man is an island,’ wrote John Donne. No woman writer is either, though it can certainly feel like it sometimes, after hours, days, weeks spent hunched over a work in progress. Not so much during the writing, perhaps, when you’re immersed in the world of the story, surrounded by characters, […]
Interview with Sarah Fay, author of PATHOLOGICAL
Over the course of thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses: anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. PATHOLOGICAL is Fay’s gripping account of the factors that led to those diagnoses, the impact each had on her life, and the ways we […]
Excerpt from Darkness Was My Candle by Lora DeVore
Born into poverty and violence, Lora’s early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should have protected her. Early trauma led to her institutionalization soon after she started college, an incarceration she would not have survived but […]
My Writing Process by Celine O’Donovan
It started with a gentle nudge but soon took on a life of its own…… By Celine O’Donovan These opening words from my new book, Gifts from the Devastation pretty much sum up how I started writing and how the process has evolved since then. Writing this book was the first time I ever consciously […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Caroline Leavitt
With or Without You, by New York Times Bestselling author Caroline Leavitt, starts with a long-time couple arguing about the course of their relationship. Simon, a former rock star, wants her to help him regain his fame, but Stella, a very practical nurse, wants him to grow up, to buy their New York City apartment, […]
Never in One Place for Long
Genevieve Jenner, the author of a new collection of short stories centred around food, Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives, shares her literary inspirations Recently I made stuffed mushrooms for dinner. I described the dish as having a 1970s continental vibe to it. At dinner I began to make up a story for my family about […]
Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States
In 2011 and 2012, I bicycled around the perimeter of the United States, 12,000 miles. I was 53 when I began and 54 when I finished the circle fourteen months later. I was not an athlete. I was a laid off college instructor, a woman suffering from PTSD, a political activist and social movement scholar. […]
Who Needs Other Women?
The friend you used to tell every scrap of good news to, and every heartache, too. The sister you shared a bedroom with for years. The woman at work who knew more about your day and your reaction to it than anyone else. Where are they now? Women’s fiction is about relationships, and well-written books […]
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